Emory is committed to its role as model of a progressive, sustainable, 'green' campus. Members of the Emory community are encouraged to work together to re-examine their modes of commuting and consider modes that share all or part of the ride with others.

Emory's extensive commute options program includes:

Free transit passes for the city’s MARTA transit system to Emory staff enrolled as alternative commuters.

The "Cliff" shuttle system, which is one of the largest bus systems in metro Atlanta. Every month, approximately 240,000 faculty, students and staff ride this 100 percent alternatively fueled system, which powers the fleet of shuttles on biodiesel made from recycled cooking oil from Emory's cafeterias and hospitals.

Graduate students who do not have monthly/annual parking passes (excluding Eagle Passes) and who register that they commute by bike, walking, or carpool drop-off are eligible for two 20-ride MARTA passes to use as a backup when they are unable to use their main commute method. Eligible students can apply for the passes here.

Bike Emory, a bike program in partnership with Fuji Bikes and Bicycle South, which includes a bike rental program on Emory's main campus and bike share program at Oxford College. Bike Emory also partners with Bicycle South to provide a bike repair unit inside Dobbs University Center (DUC), and offers discounted bikes and accessories for staff and students.

Zimride, Georgia's first-ever ridematching service using a social networking website.

Enterprise CarShare (formerly ZipCar), a car share program on Emory's campus that provides Emory students, employees, and departments with a convenient and flexible method of transportation.

Park-n-ride facilities at area shopping malls around the perimeter of Atlanta. This partnership takes vehicles off the roads while at the same time curbing the need to build new parking lots on campus.

Extensive system of carpools and vanpools that carry hundreds of commuters to work each day.

The Office of Sustainability Initiatives and Transportation and Parking Services have been working on strategies to address requests for EV charging. Emory’s energy and carbon emissions reduction goals make it important to avoid additional uses of electricity on campus. Reducing electricity use is critically important at Emory because most of the power from our utility, Georgia Power, has been primarily from fossil fuels, the largest sources of greenhouse gas pollution in the U.S. Therefore, we have been looking at solar-powered charging stations in order to avoid the negative impacts of increased electricity use that would come from EV charging. The costs of these systems is prohibitively expensive at this point. Over the past year, the fuel mix from Georgia Power has changed significantly, and we are now installing non-renewable EV charging with separate metering that allows us to track and subtract EV charging from our campus electricity use. For more information and locations, please click here.

Clifton Corridor Transit Initiative (CCTI)
The CCTI is a proposed light rail line linking MARTA’s Lindbergh Center Station (Red and Gold Lines) with Avondale Station (Blue line). This service proposes to provide high-capacity transit service with competitive travel times along the Clifton Corridor, which includes: Emory University, Emory Hospital, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Children’s Healthcare, DeKalb Medical Center and the Veteran’s Administration Hospital. Learn more about it on the MARTA website or in this factsheet here.